Have you ever had a good idea that later turned out to be really stupid? I'm sure everyone has experienced this and this past weekend was one for me.

Claire and I went to Galveston to visit some friends for the day. We were driving down a two lane highway when the police had blocked it off for an accident. They were routing traffic down towards the beach. While we were waiting in line, we realized that the route led underneath a private beachhouse. So all the traffic from the highway was going through one lucky person's beachhouse. One of my friends got out and started to take some pictures of the unbelievable sight. While he was out of the car, I saw a path to the beach without going through the beachhouse that nobody else was taking....RED FLAG! That should have gone off in my head, but nooooooooo. I said, "Let's buck the system!" Why follow what everyone else was doing? So we decided to go straight and take this little path. Halfway down the path, we got stuck. In the sand. Ding! Ding! Ding! That's why nobody else was taking this path. So my friend and I got out and started to push the car back up the path. When the car began to accelerate, I let go. However, I didn't realize that my ring had caught on the car hood. So the car is accelerating and my hand is caught. The only thing I could think of was that I was going to lost my finger. I said my goodbyes. My right ring finger has served me well for 25 years but here was its time to go. I apparently was yelling to stop because my friend who was driving stopped. My finger was still attached! It hurt really bad though and was cut. We made it back up the path, through the beachhouse, onto the beach through a well traveled path and then back to the beachhouse they were staying at. So, lesson learned and almost a very costly lesson at that. My finger is purple so I did break some blood vessels, but that's it. Not even a break! As for the rest of our trip, we had a great time and enjoyed a day out of our ordinary routine.

In other news, Justin got a 97% on his Calculus 2 test. I'm so proud of him and so jealous as well. I struggled through Calc 1 although I know not everyone can even do that. Mainly, I'm proud of him though. Let's just see how he does in Calc 3 though!

Also, today is my brother's birthday! So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIMMY!

Hope everyone had a great Easter!

Game Show Network. I love that channel. I have always been a huge fan of game shows and it is a dream of mine to be on one someday...not to win money, although that would be nice of course, but just to say I was once on a game show!

However, our cable company does not understand the love affair I have with that channel and have taken it off. Not of expanded or moved it to a higher price rate, just taken it off completely. I won't say my life is over, but it is forever changed...until we move or the cable company gets it back. Maybe it's time to switch to satellite television. Hmm......

In other news, Claire has been eating her veggies so well. I'm so proud of her. She ate a whole jar of carrots today for lunch. I couldn't get them in her mouth fast enough and when she finished the entire thing, she cried for more. Afterwards, I felt guilty for feeding her so much, but I'm just so glad that she likes her veggies unlike someone else in our household. Tomorrow, we try sweet potatoes for the first time and after that we're moving on to the fruits!

Hopefully, she'll continue to like her veggies but even if she doesn't I will finally get to use the old saying we all heard growing up...."Eat your veggies, they're good and good for ya!"

I love vegetables and I would have to say my favorite one is pumpkin but if you don't consider pumpkin to be a vegetable, then my favorite is squash. What's your favorite veggie?

Ok, so see? I'm posting again! A lot sooner than you thought I know.

A tragedy happened this week in my community and it has really affected me a lot more than I expected. A bus carrying a high school girls soccer team crashed and killed two of the girls, and injured a lot of them. One girl has lost both arms due to this. It was just horrific.

The reason why it affected me so much is two fold. First of all being a new parent. Now that I have a little girl, I just couldn't imagine her not being around anymore. You always hear how horrible it would be and how your kids are supposed to live longer than you. When you actually have a person that you are responsible for bringing in this world, and then raising them through all the heartaches, to never see them again I just don't know if I could deal with that.

Second of all, I think about this whole thing from a teacher's point of view. I just never thought of it from that perspective. Here is someone that I see and am in charge of every day even if just for one class period. I saw them earlier today, maybe scolded her for talking in class or something like that, and now I won't have her homework turned in tomorrow, her seat will be empty in the class, her lab group is one person short. It's not just about being different, it's about a great loss. Even though I've never been a school teacher before, I can already imagine the responsibility I'll feel for each student.

On a much brighter note, Claire has been doing really well. I love her smile. She is so happy. She is also getting really good and fast at turning over. I had her in the very middle of the bed and I was at the end of the bed hanging up laundry. I was watching her and in the time it took me to put a hanger in a shirt while still facing her, she almost rolled off the bed. No lie! I scooped her up when she was about one inch away from the edge--mid turn. Needless to say, from then on I hung up laundry with her on the floor playing quietly!